Hi again!
Welcome to another Ancestor Insight! Today I will be writing about my
3rd great grandmother, Mariah Elizabeth Southard Couch
Reed of Hopkins County,
Kentucky.
Born
to Fielding Grandison Southard and Margaret E Wheatley on December
25, 1864 in Hopkins County, Kentucky, was my 3rd
great grandmother, Miss Mariah Elizabeth Southard.
Mariah
grew up on a farm in Hopkins County; Southard
being a prominent name in that county. Her grandfather, Fielding
Southard, came to that place from Madison County, Virginia. Mariah
had six siblings: Martha, Malissa, William, Thomas,
Charlotte and Joseph.
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| Hopkins County, Kentucky Map |
On
September 25, 1883, she was married to William Allen Couch, son of
John and Alcy George Couch. Mariah was 18 and 9 months old. They had
their first child, Vernia Hester Couch, in December of 1884. She then
had 7 more children – 6 of them dying before adulthood.
William
and Mariah separated sometime around late 1899-early 1900. We may
never know why they separated, buy by 1902, Mariah was married to
James Buchanan Reed. James and Mariah had two children – Jerome and
Buchanan.
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| Mariah and children on the 1900 Hopkins County Census, living with an aunt-in-law |
Mariah
died at the age of 68 on January 6, 1933 in Hopkins County. Here is
the obituary that ran in The Daily Messenger
in Madisonville, Kentucky on January 6th:
“Mrs.
Mariah Reed, 68, widow, Carbondale section, died at her home at 8
o'clock this morning of influenza-pnumonia, following nine day
illness.
Funeral
services will be conducted at the residence at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon and burial will be in Cane Run cemetery at Carbondale.
She
is survived by four children, Buck and Jerome Reed, Carbondale; Mrs.
Henry McCain, Missouri, and Mrs. Tommy Osburn, Grapevine section;
brother, Tommy Southard, Carbondale; and a sister, Mrs. Lottie
Ausenbaugh, also of Carbondale section.”
Mariah
was buried at the Cane Run Cemetery
near Madisonville. Unfortunately, the cemetery is very badly kept,
and we are unable to find a tombstone. But the memory of Mariah
Elizabeth Southard Couch Reed will
remain and live in the hearts of her descendants.
Published:
12 January 2015
My
E-Mail: tylerjamesmccane@gmail.com
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